April 26, 2012 — That anxious hospital emergency department (ED) visit to learn whether a child's belly ache is a sign of appendicitis increasingly involves computed tomography (CT) to render a ...

Computed tomography (CT) scans of the chest, abdomen, and spine, taken originally to detect problems such as kidney stones or ...

What is CT scan (abdomen)? CT scan is an imaging modality which uses special X-ray equipment to produce multiple pictures of the inside of the body. These are then joined together by a computer to ...

About one-third of CT examinations performed following an inconclusive abdominal ultrasound examination have positive findings, according to a study of 449 patients at Massachusetts General Hospital ...

The use of CT scanning to evaluate abdominal pain in emergency departments can help physicians arrive at a diagnosis quickly and decisively. The new study also finds that information provided by CT ...

A study of more than 12,000 children from emergency departments throughout the U.S. has identified seven factors that can help physicians determine the need for a computed tomography scan following ...

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the association between standard and computed tomography (CT)-based measures of obesity and subclinical atherosclerosis, defined as coronary artery calcium (CAC) by Electron ...

To evaluate the role of chest CT in the initial staging of testicular seminomatous germ cell tumours. All patients referred to Addenbrooke's Hospital with testicular seminoma from 1 January 2000 to 31 ...

Although CT referrals from GPs in Denmark have seen an increase, over 10% of patients with non-specific symptoms are ...

Starting Jan. 1, 2011 CMS changed the way coders report abdomen and pelvis CT scans performed together, according to a Diagnostic Imaging report. According to the report, the new combined-code ...

Computed tomography (CT) scans of the chest, abdomen, and spine, taken originally to detect problems such as kidney stones or ...